The absurdity of attempting to rear a virile white race .-in the enervating tropic northlands of Australia, where it can only encumber ground that could be worked much more profitably by coloured labour, is evidenced by weaklings who journeyed 1700 miles from North Queensland to play a football match in Sydney (says the Sydney “Bulletin”). The heaviest man in the team, J. Culhane, is a mere 14st. Roberts, from the Innisfail sugar swamps, is 13st 61b, and ten others range from 13st 41b to 12st.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 11
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